Cigar-cutter



(No Model.)

B. WALKER. CIGAR CUTTER.

No. 452,626. Patented May 19, 1891.

6) yfl UNITED STATES PATENT Qnmen.

EDWVIN WVALKER, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGAR-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 452,626, dated May 19, 1891.

Application filed May 6, 1889. Serial No. 309,836. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN WALKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Erie, 1n the county of Erie and State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-0utters; and I do.

hereby declare the following to be' a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanylng drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming part of this specification.

My invention consists in the improvements in cigar-cutters hereinafter set forth and explanned, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of my improved cigar-cutter. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same with the top removed therefrom, showing the internal construction thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a portion of the cover thereof.

Like letters refer to like parts in all the figures.

The object of my invention is to construct a cigar-cutter consisting of a box having a semi-cylindrical top or cover on the rear portion of the box and a fiat inclined top or cover on the front portion of the box, and having therein an oscillating cutter secured to a shaft mounted in bearings under the cylindrical portion of the box-cover, and an arm for oscillating said shaft and the knife thereon in one direction, and a retractingspring for moving it in the opposite direction.

In the construction of my improved cigarcutter shown in the drawings, Ais a box, preferably made of cast metal. Upon the rear portion of the top of this box A, I secure a semi-cylindrical shell B, which forms the rear portion of the cover of the box, and to the front edge of the shell B, I secure a flat inclined plate 0, which extends therefrom forward and downward to the front edge of the bottom of the box A, these parts being preferably secured to the box by means of ordinary screws, so as to be removable when desired. In the joint formed between the ends of the semi-cylindrical portion B of the cover and the upper edges of the sides of the box A, I make bearings E, in which I mount a rock-shaft F, provided with a laterally-projecting handle or lever G for oscillating said rock-shaft in one direction, and upon the shaft F, I also secure a retracting-spring I for oscillating it in the opposite direction. To the shaft F, between the bearings E E, I also secure a blade H at such an angle to said shaft that the cutting-edge thereof, when the handle or lever G is depressed, sweeps around close to the circular inside face of the coversection B, so as to cut off the tips of cigars inserted in the openings D in the top of said cover, the severed tips falling down into the bottom of the box A, the shaft F being automatically oscillated back to its normal posillOll as soon as the pressure is removed from the handle or lever G.

In the side of the upper part of the box A an opening d is provided, through which the severed cigar-tips accumulated in the box A can be readily discharged.

The plate 0, forming one section of the cover of the box A, is secured to the front of the box A in an inclined position, so as to the better adapt it to present advertising-matter thereon to users of the cigar-cutter, and these plates 0 are also interchangeable, so that any desired changes can be made in advertisingmatter used thereon by removing one plate from the box A and placing another having different advertising-matter thereon in its place, my improved cigar-cutter being thus constructed so as to perform two functions viz., that of a cigar-cutter and that of an advertising device.

Having thus fully described my invention, so as to enable others to construct and operate the same, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The combination, in a cigar-cutter, of a box having the rear portion of the top thereof covered by a semicylinder and the front portion of the top thereof covered by a flat inclined plate extending from the front edge of the semi-cylindrical section of the cover forward and downward to the bottom of the front side of the box, with an oscillating shaft box-cover, substantially as and [or the pur- -'o mounted in bearings at the sides of the box v pose set forth. under the semi-cylindrical portion of the In testimony \VllOlGOfIil-lllX mysigimtnrein cover, an arm on said shaft for oscillating presence of two witnesses.

5 it in one direction, aspring for oscillating the she-ft in the opposite direction, and a EDWIN WALKER. knife mounted on said shaft, so as to travel Witnesses: in the are of the circle formed by the inside GEORGE PLATT,

surface of the semi-cylindrical portion of the II. J. CURTZE. 

